Literary Boston as I Knew It (From Literary Friends and Acquaintance)

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Author: William Dean Howells

Literary Boston as I Knew It

Among my fellow-passengers on the train from New York to Boston, when I went to begin my work there in 1866, as the assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly, was the late Samuel Bowles, of the Springfield Republican, who created in a subordinate city a journal of metropolitan importance. I had met him in Venice several years earlier, when he was suffering from the cruel insomnia which had followed his overwork on that newspaper, and when he told me that he was sleeping scarcely more than one hour out of the twenty-four. His worn face attested the misery which this must have been, and which lasted in some measure while he lived, though I believe that rest and travel relieved him in his later years. He was always a man of cordial friendliness, and he now expressed a most gratifying interest when I told him what I was going to do in Boston. He gave himself the pleasure of descanting upon the dramatic quality of the fact that a young newspaper man from Ohio was about to share in the destinies of the great literary periodical of New England.

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Chicago: William Dean Howells, "Literary Boston as I Knew It," Literary Boston as I Knew It (From Literary Friends and Acquaintance), ed. Davis, Charles Belmont, 1866-1926 in Literary Boston as I Knew It (From Literary Friends and Acquaintance) (New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909), Original Sources, accessed April 19, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=XA86T1XQK7Z7LAN.

MLA: Howells, William Dean. "Literary Boston as I Knew It." Literary Boston as I Knew It (From Literary Friends and Acquaintance), edited by Davis, Charles Belmont, 1866-1926, in Literary Boston as I Knew It (From Literary Friends and Acquaintance), Vol. 22, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909, Original Sources. 19 Apr. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=XA86T1XQK7Z7LAN.

Harvard: Howells, WD, 'Literary Boston as I Knew It' in Literary Boston as I Knew It (From Literary Friends and Acquaintance), ed. . cited in 1909, Literary Boston as I Knew It (From Literary Friends and Acquaintance), Doubleday, Page & Company, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 19 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=XA86T1XQK7Z7LAN.